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Person
Miles Rapoport is a left-wing activist and Democratic politician who served as Secretary of State of Connecticut and ran the left-of-center advocacy groups Demos and Common Cause. He is currently the executive director of 100% Democracy, an advocacy group for mandatory voting based on a book of the
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Other Group
VoteOurVoice is a left-leaning monitoring organization that reports on the policy positions of elected officials. The organization tracks politicians both in the United States and around the world andclaims that its work “creates communities” in order to “bring positive change to their political systems.” The organization lists several corporate partners,
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Political Party/527
Un-PAC is a political action committee (PAC) that recruits young adults to become activists for left-wing causes with a particular focus on campaign finance laws and election administration policy. The PAC has endorsed the For the People Act, which would increase federal involvement in state election administration and place constraints
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Other Group
The Stamp Stampede was an activist project that aimed to promote left-of-center policies on taxation, welfare programs, campaign financing, criminal justice, and other issues, primarily by recruiting volunteers to stamp political slogans on dollar bills and releasing them into circulation. The project’s organizers described their money-stamping campaign as a “sustained
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Non-profit
What’s Next Washington (WNW) is an organization of formerly incarcerated people and activists who work to help rehabilitate people with conviction histories when their incarceration ends. WNW advocates for and works with employers to change their rules and policies to remove barriers they have in place against hiring and supporting
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Other Group
Reclaim Our Democracy is a social action group at First Parish, a Unitarian Universalist church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is part of the Unitarian Universalist Association which supports left-of-center social action.
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Non-profit
People’s Agenda, also known as the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (GCPA), is an advocacy organization focused on increasing Black voter turnout in Georgia. It was founded in 1998 by civil rights activist Joseph Lowery.
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Other Group
The Southern Christian Leadership conference is a collection of local chapters located throughout the country that advocates for racial justice and government welfare programs for economic redistribution. Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization hosts demonstrations against businesses that it claims are engaged in racism and discrimination against African
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Other Group
Open the Government (OTG) is a coalition of left-of-center organizations that promote various changes to open records and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws, as well as left-of-center racial preference policies. The group was founded in 2008 and has operated campaigns criticizing the federal government’s counter-terrorism and surveillance programs. The
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Other Group
Transparency International (TI) is an international anti-corruption coalition of over 100 chapters worldwide that practices research, advocacy, and campaigning to expose corruption, push for greater government transparency, and lobby for anti-corruption legislation and processes. 109 It
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Other Group
ElectionIntegrityCaucus.us is a left-of-center election activist group based in Petaluma, California. 129 It supports the proposed For the People Act, which would federalize U.S. election administration
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Non-profit
CASE Action Fund (also named CASE Action) is a left-of-center voter engagement and policy advocacy organization founded in 2016 and located in Arizona. 149 It is associated with 501(c)(3) Central Arizonans for a
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Non-profit
Campaign to Unload was a gun control advocacy coalition of over 50 left-of-center organizations focused on changing gun law policies and encouraging organizations and individuals to divest of all investments in gunmakers.
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Non-profit
In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda is a pro-abortion activist organization that asserts that there are “systems of oppression that target black women.” It is a partnership of eight Black women’s activist organizations, is a member of left-leaning coalition Declaration for American Democracy and is
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Other Group
Scrutineers is a left-of-center election activist organization that plans strategies and works to implement the critical race theory-influenced concept of “election justice.” 202 Scrutineers is a member of the left-leaning Declaration for American Democracy (DFAD)
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Non-profit
Lawyers Defending American Democracy is a left-of-center political advocacy organization that authored letters, statements, and briefs about issues it deems are threats to democracy and presses the legal community to act on said perceived threats.
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Movement
In late November 2022, billionaire Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk announced he would be releasing “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression.” He allowed six independent journalists, many of them with left-leaning backgrounds, access to internal Twitter documents and communications covering a period beginning in 2016 when
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For-profit
Pythia Public is a consulting firm specializing in public relations and public affairs for political candidates, issue advocacy campaigns, and corporations. In 2022, Pythia Public was named the best political public relations firm in New York, citing its work for New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), Comptroller
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For-profit
Civic Eagle is a for-profit company that sells Enview, a federal and state-level legislation tracking and explaining service to businesses, nonprofits, lobbying groups, and law firms, From its founding in 2019 to May 2022, Civic Eagle had served more than 2,000 users
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For-profit
Action Squared is a for-profit company that builds online tools for left-wing non-profits and labor unions, primarily through Action Network and Action Builder. Action Network is an online toolset and the sole owner of Action Squared. Action Builder, another online development toolset, is owned by Action Squared and was
